Experience Level: No experience necessary!

Nerikomi is a decorative process established in Japan that involves stacking colored clay and then slicing through the cross section to reveal a pattern. Nerikomi designs provide a wonderful way to work three dimensionally with patterns and images, or they can become the walls to hand built pots.

During this workshop, Tina Burk will guide you in creating a unique pattern and then applying it to a masterpiece. Firing Fees included.

$150 per artist- Members receive a $25 discount

Madison Mud
3/22 10am-5pm

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Experience Level: No experience necessary!

The Japanese art of repairing broken pottery. If a bowl is broken, rather than discarding the pieces, the fragments are put back and the cracks are adorned with gold. Guest Instructor Tara DeLuca will lead you in connecting with a bowl (provided by us ), breaking it, confronting the damage and taking ownership of the pieces that remain by glueing them back together.

$120 per artist- Members receive a $25 discount

Montclair Mud (Bloomfield Ave)
3/28 1-3:30pm

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Experience Level: Must be able to throw a small cylinder on the wheel without assistance!

Have you seen all those cool pots that look like archeological finds? Those are what we call cracked pots! In this Sodium Silicate Workshop, you will learn several methods to get this cool effect. Workshop includes 8 oz sodium silicate, and firing fees for up to 4 medium sized pots. (After that firing fees are 6 cents/cubic inch members, 10-18 cents/cubic inch non members, depending on which glaze you use.)

$120 per artist (members receive a $20 discount)

More Montclair Mud (Upper Montclair) 4/4 1-3:30pm

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Experience Level: MUST KNOW BASIC STEPS OF THROWING A POT! (You don’t have to be good at those steps.) This is not a “from scratch” class! We will be timing and challenging ourselves.

The cylinder is the basic skill for most forms we create. We are often too quick to jump ahead without teaching our body and brain how to make the perfect cylinder. Sign up for this cylinder intensive. Attempt to throw 8 to 10 PERFECT cylinders…(yeah right).

You will get to keep 4 cylinders. Subsequent pots would be 6 cents/cubic inch for members or 10-18 cents/ cubic inch for non members, (depending on which glaze you use.)

$80 per artist- Members receive a $20 discount.

MORE Montclair Mud (Upper Montclair) 4/19 12:30-4pm
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Madison 4/25
12:30-4pm
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Experience Level- Must create pieces to be bisqued prior to the workshop, using purchased raku clay

Its back! Raku at MUD. Hopefully this revival will last! Join Raku Artist Brett Thomas in an outdoor creative treat. Each artist will be able to glaze and fire 5 pieces at our Madison Mud Location! Pieces should be no bigger than 12” high and 8” wide

Limit 15 artists. (Pizza included, but not made in the kiln!) Pots must be created with Raku clay which can be bought at the studio or purchased at Ceramic Supply. Pieces must be bisqued beforehand, so you would need to make your projects no later than two weeks ahead and leave a note on them that says (RAKU).Glazes will be provided. (No firing fees.)

$175 per artist (no member discount) Must also purchase raku clay.

Madison Mud
5/9 or 6/13 9am-5pm

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Advance Registration Required

Clay Critique
Madison 4/26 1-2:30pm

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Experience Level: No experience necessary, but this is a technical workshop!

This three-day workshop will be a general overview of ceramic glazes, focusing on but not limited to cone 6 glazes. It is designed for the continuing beginner to intermediate ceramic artists.

Glaze chemistry doesn’t have to be that scary! John will guide us through glaze formulation, the mixing process, calculations and educate us the properties of the ingredients.

As a group we will mixed color blends on three different clay bodies to create a library of ideas!

We will discuss cones, kilns, firing dynamics, and principles as well as how to apply those principles to various firing cycles. We are chasing color!

We will discuss how glazes work, how to adjust your glazes, and how to find new ones.

The workshop fee includes three days of instruction, raw materials for glazes, bisque-fired test tiles that you will get to keep, and the firings of these test tiles in the workshop.Click here for a materials list

Montclair Mud Clay Studio (Bloomfield Ave)

Friday April 10 9am-4pm
Saturday April 11 9am-4pm
Sunday April 12 9am-3pm

$550 per artist- Members receive a $75 discount

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